Literary Magazine Receives Prestigious Award

Charlotte’s Web, ICJA’s Literary Magazine 2017 placed among the high school literary magazines in Illinois!

Recommended for the award of Excellent, our school’s literary magazine competed in a field of almost 400 other schools of all sizes. Congratulations to last year’s editors Yoni Asher, Yardayna Ben-Simon and Noa Okner and all who worked so hard to produce our outstanding magazine. Congrats to faculty advisor, Marsha Arons.

NCTE’s Program to Recognize Excellence in Student Literary Magazines (PRESLM) recognizes students, teachers, and schools for producing excellent literary magazines. The program’s mission is to encourage all schools to develop literary magazines and seek excellence in writing and school-wide participation in production.

What’s perhaps most astounding about the high rank of our literary magazine is that the contest is not divided by school size, so that ICJA’s small student body of under 300 competes with some of the largest schools in the state. Students submit work to the magazine’s editors throughout the school year, and the book is completed each spring to showcase ICJA’s writers, poets, artists, photographers and graphic designers.